Things That I, An Artist, Have Done When Switching From Digital Art To Pencil Art;

Things that I, an artist, have done when switching from digital art to pencil art;

been awed by the feeling of pencil scraping paper

screamed at smudges

screamed at erase lines

tried to zoom in. on paper.

tried to use the undo function. on paper.

screamed at eyes

mad that I couldn’t resize bad proportioning

cried

Allistic people don’t have a conversational stack

For those of you with acquaintances and family members living with allism, you might be familiar with, and getting tired of, such things as:

Being met with confusion upon restarting a conversation topic that had been interrupted earlier, and being told that “this conversation’s been over for a while”

Having a lapse in memory for one reason or another, and asking “Wait, what were we talking about? No, I mean, before that”, and having your acquaintance with allism express confusion at any distress about not being able to remember that

Being reminded of something by the current conversation, bringing it up, and being met with allistic signs of distress and complaints about “changing the topic”

As it turns out, this is because of the oft-overlooked cognitive symptoms of allism! You see, the average non-allistic person will have a sort of “mental stack” to keep track of conversational things like, most obviously, the topic of the current conversation. What this means is that, essentially, you “pile up” new topics on top of the previous ones, and once you’re done talking about one, you “take it out” of the stack and you can then resume the previous conversation.

People with allism won’t do that. Of course, anyone can get memory issues hindering the proper function of that mental stack, but allism leads to a complete lack of that stack altogether. Once they start talking about something else, the previous conversation is over. Completely. This can be somewhat debilitating in day-to-day life, so here are some tips to accomodate that when talking to someone with allism:

Talk about one thing at a time, and one thing only

Avoid shifting topics, unless they do it themselves or it’s clear that they don’t want to talk about the previous one anymore (look for extended periods of silence!)

If you do want to bring something up, instead of interrupting the current conversation, try to make a note of it to bring up later!

If anyone in your life has allism, I hope this will help you communicate more efficiently with them. Take care!

There are three basic categories of fic writer:

type one: fan fiction is a love letter to canon, only small changes unless it’s an au!!

type two: the source material can bite me, I don’t give a fuck

type three: horny

CW: discussion of murder, police brutality, racism, and ableism.

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When I stim, I risk a few things. More minor things, like being stared at or laughed at, are small but build up over time. They hurt, but are possible to ignore.

Other things, like being called names, being bullied, being isolated, being infantisised, being underestimated, can be difficult to cope with.

But whilst I've felt self conscious, embarrassed, worried, and anxious whilst stimming in public, I have never feared for my life.

Black autistic people do not have this luxury. If a Black autistic person stims in public, even completely non-harmful stimming, they are in danger of having others feel 'uncomfortable' and calling the police on them. They are in danger, not because their stimming is self-injurious, but because others might assault or kill them for it.

Black autistic people are unable to be themselves in public for fear of retribution from those supposed to protect others.

We cannot have autism acceptance without first making it safe for Black autistic people to exist as themselves. If you promote autism acceptance or neurodiversity and (like myself) are white, you also need to promote acceptance of Black autistic people. Black lives matter, and Black autistic lives matter too.

(Video description: my hand flapping and finger flicking in front of a white background).

pan + pan pride

pan: attraction to all genders; attraction regardless of gender

happy Pan Visibility Day! (May 24th)

Say it with me, kids:

Your mental illness/disability/neurodivergency DOES NOT invalidate your gender identity or sexuality